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Food for Eurasia
The State College Emergency Food , Commit
tee organized Sunday night. It drew up plans to
unite the town and the College in a drive for aid
ing the millions of people in Europe and Asia who
pre starving.
It is hard 'for American people to realize the
'Pitiful conditions existing in lands so far away.
They 'have had rationing, yes. 'but to such a little
extent in comparison with the rationing in Europe
and Asia, that it can scarcely be mentioned. They
'must visualize such ruthless famine through the
eyes of their newspapers, radio reports, and those
'people who have come back from Europe with
ttirst-hand reports.
'Dr.. Champlin, who has just returned from Eu
rope, explained to the Food Committee just how
'acute the famine situation is on that continent. He
pointed out that the average number of calories
per person each day is 1500 and under, not the
normal 2500 and over consumed in this country.
There is no wealthy, class existing in England,
and 50 to 75 per cent Of the food is in the hands of
black markets. Dr. Champlin went on to explain
that he expected the food situation to reach a peak
of severity in the next ten weeks.
With all these facts in mind, there is urgent
need for such a committee which i•s now being or
gbnized. The College ha•s already begun to help
with the famine drive by observing breadless Tu
esdays and Thursdays in the dormitories. Students
will also be asked to help financially.
How can anyone overlook the seriousnes s of this
'famine? If students put their• wholehearted sup
port in aiding the starving people in Europe and
Asia, they, along with the people of State College,
will help some of the millions who would other
wise die of starvation.
Mal-Managed Courts
With Penn State's notoriously inadequate re-
creational facilities already over-crowded, the
situation is being magnified by the monopoliza-
lion and mad-management of the tennis courts
Recently the courts have been in such condi
ticn that any attempt to play on them has been a
farce. Gaping cracks, faded boundary lines,.and
uneven surfaces have reduced the playing surfac
es to nothing more than mud holes.
" Added to the deplorable condition of the courts
'has been an increasing number of physical educa
tion classe s that have taken over the courts. It is
not unusual to find all the playing area monopol
ized by these physical education. classes.
Still another factor that minimizes the all a
round usefulness of the courts is the "court hog."
This species of tenni s enthusiast insists on disre
garding the posted rules governing the time,a court
may be used by one set of players.
'Until these three above conditions are rectified,
the Penn State Student body does not have much
to look forward to in the way of recreational fa
cilities.
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Thursday, May 30, 1946
_Audrey RybuCh' fr George &imple
Old Mania
The days of the a'.most legendary fcur to one ratio may be'almost
in sight again, but just the scme it was a little startling even to Maniac
to read in this column last week that one girl was engaged to two fel
lows and both of then Phi Delta Thetas. Just exactly how that mix up
occurred doWn at the print shop will take its place with other great
mySteries such as "Who threw the overalls in 'Mother Murphy's
Chowder?" And to clear 'things
up, DG pledge Mary Jean Gold
smith is engaged to Phi Delt Joe
Eisenhuth.
She Wears His Pin
The pinning and engaged list is
back to normal again after a short
slump. SDT Jo Rizika is wearing
a Beta" Sig pin from Joe New
hoff . . . Delt Charles Hollinger
gave:his pin to ChiO Eunice Hurl
bert . . . AChiO Nancy Mast is
pinned to Kappa Sig Merb Kray
bill. And Theta Barbara Kriny is
no longer pinned to Sigma Pi
Walter Funk.
iSpoudekastor Eleanor Vinson is
wearing a rock from SPE Richard
Benefield . . . MO alum Cassie
Clousser is making July wedding
plans following her recent engage
ment to Phi Delt Sam Kinney . .
Another ChiO alum Laura Jean
Davis has announced her engage
ment to Phi Delta Theta president
Bruce Ross . . . Gamma Phi Beta
Peggy Wassons is showing oft a
ring from Don Ault.
Stork Note
It's a baby girl for Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Hawthorne. She's the for
mer Jeanne Duncan, a Gamma Phi
alum, and he's an Alpha Zeta.
It will surprise no one,to learn
that there were lots of visitors on
campus last weeken4. Some of the
fellows and the gal s they came to
see are .. .
Mu
Hunter and his
fiance Phi Mu Marcia Conroe . .
Harry Street and Phi Mu Dottie
Harrison . . . Penn Phi Ep Mary
Chaiken and AEPhi Missy Le
vine . . . Ernie Lopez and AEPhi
Mary Davidson . Joe Higaland
and Chi° Virginia Durbin.
The tortured triceps of tired trainee's have been ',subjected to
another strength test. This fiendish favorite past 7 time of P.T. ma
jors has long been a periodic irritant in the calm. beautiful routine
of trainee's lives. However, this must he the last one, the body can ,
take no more. •
Khaki uniforms are now classroom wear, which should make.
everyone but the local launcir3.
happy.
Dethrhed Mind
For an example of the detached
mind at work, we give you Joe
Pettit, who broke his leg a couple
of weeks ago but didn't notice it
till the other day. Joe has been
issued a bicycle, and is following
in the tire tracks of Boopsie Stet
ler.
Breaking a bone seems to be the
current unit fad, everyone is do
' ing it. If this keeps wp slings will
be included in the. uniform of the
day. Several other trainees have
a different part of their anatomy
in a sling, particularly . those
"flunking navigatiOn.
As .if the "trainee's life wasn't
- hard enough already, the trains
went .on strike and off-station
liberties were cancelled. As a
'coneqUetice a multitude foufid
themselves in State College an.
Letters, .to the Edit®r
Dear Editor
In referende to your, editorial;
"Polite Society - Says ! " in the May
24 issue of Collegian, I would
like, to point out why. I disagree
With the content of said editorial.-
As I am not a teetotaler, I can
appreciate what you are driving
at. However, - you have tailed to
take into consideration the Penn
sylvania liquor control law con
cerning the serving of alcoholic
beverages to minors.
From personal observation
v.:ith the aid of reliab'e infcrma
tion. I know that the Florida
Slate College for Women at Tall
ahasee, Fla., has been known to
expel students for merely fre
quenting "Joe' s Spaghetti House"
which serves only beer. It you
think this a, strict and unfair rule,
you ought to see the quality of
girl that graduates from this col-
lege.
You admit that some coeds ig
nore "Penn State's" no drinking
rule: I ray that any girl who
does this really wants to drink
and so does. However, by legaliz-
TI-TE CO.LL,EGIAN
B 7 BARBARA INGRAHAM
And for a few more . , . Bill
Carlyle and DG Becky Cutts . . .
Bob Shillegass and DG Pat Kin
kead . . . Merle Edwards•and
pha Xi Delt Mary Lou Mahaffey.
Bill Kenneweg arid Theta Clem
McMahan . Buddy Marks and
_Naomi Lazan . . . Bernie Sweer,
Pi Lam from Pitt and Lil Gott
lieb . . . Lenny Go'.denson and
Adrienne Shapiro.
Bowery Ball
"Bowery Ball" was the way the
Phi Delts entertained themselves
and their. dates Saturday night.
Seen at the ball were Jack
Shrum and • Spoudekastor Louise
Becker . . . Frank Mattern and
Theta Barb McCleary . . . ChiO
Jane Jordan and Evan Brown. .
John McCleary and DG Greta
Hughes.
• At the SOT pledge dance in thp
Nittany Lion Inn Saturday night
Maniac's spies glimpsed Joan .Mil
lei and Maury Hymowitz . Ni
na Rabinowitz and Ralph Cohen.
Harriet Miller and Hal , Benjamin.
Jean Eisenberg and Louis Glanz
berg.
Ten Lampedes journeyed down
to Bucknell last weekend to at
tend the De'ta Zeta Spring for
'mai.
Corning up tomorrow night is
the AOLPi pledge formal. Some of
the. AOPi's and their escorts are
Grace Fuchs and Chi Phi Jinx
Falkenburg . . . Harriet Denby
and Chi Phi Jack Zelek . . Jinx
Ramsey and ATO Bill Hubbard .
Josie Snyder and Delta Sig Her
bie Seton . . . Julia Kallbach . .
and Chi Phi Chuck Woods.
—Maniac
NROTC News
'BY TOM KELLEY
Saturday night with nothing
planned, and as everyone knows,
State College is an awfully lively
place to spend an evening when
you don't have.anything- planned.
Unit Glory,
Bill Davis has 'finally broken
into the baseball line-up and
brought further honor and glory
to the Unit. So far Bill has con
ducted himself well at bat and in
the field.
Speaking of athletic honor and
glory our distinguished lacrosse
players Nolan and Tenhula have
been picked for the North-South
game. This is Tenhula'sfirst 'sea
son of Murder in Short Pants.
The Nittany Se'a Lion was a
couple of days late last week due
to the disappearance of the sports -
page? The NOV York Times- which
is knbwn , tO fear..the dbinPaittion;
is; suspected of the theft.
. . .
ing .drinking .at Penn. State you
would . be inducing girls • whO
were indifferent towarci. , drink
ing, to drink.
,
Last. , but riot . least, I can, see
no possible correlation between
adult Intelligence • and thinking.
Drinking has never made an
adult out of an adolescent, but
has many times made an adoles
cent out of ,an adult.
•
Sir,
I would like to . add my mite to
the C:sel - ved co.lll.menclatdons you
reeeivei on your :flay - 'nth issue.
it was indtqbiltably one of the best
if not the best I have seen during
my all too ;Mort stay here.
At the sazne time I am sure you
see the real significance of all the
letters you received. IA de,mon-.
strates in a very real manner the
fact that Penn Staters do care for
things more serious than the ac
celerations and decelerations off
'the .porcine ptopulattiah as effected,.
.by coeds bf hidiffecrerrt (hi
this litipo you will earn the
(Continued on: page thite)
Bullosopher
J. Solvency Dingleberry, Collegian's feline mas
cot, seldom reads the paper. This is perfectly un-!
derstandable since he is on:y a freshman and has
been busy all semester learning how to write his
name. Next 'year, when he is a sophomore he in-
tends to learn how to read and thus get out of the
lower division, before the LA post-war planning
committee get. their proposal through to reorgant-
In the meantime, Dingrk is dependent upon hiss
cousin Homer fo: finding. out just, what is writ-
ten in student publications. Homer Is that little
black and white striped pussy who is often seen
crossing South Allen street after midnight when
the streets are deseyted
(Ed. note: Homer is a very wise skunk; he's
smart in not crossing Co-op corner during the
day. The borough, 'as yet, hasn't installed stop
lights at this intersection. Homer realizes that
should he be smacked by 'a car :at this corner
quite a stink would be raised.)
Taking Sides
But getting back on the scent of Homer and
Dingy who just flnished reading the. Tuesday mor
ning .Collegian. Dingy would like to take issue
with a fellow columnist
In Punch Lines there is a comment to the effect
that: "For 25 cents it would be possible to buy an
issue of The New Yorker and Dime Comics and
get more ;laughs in one page than Froth put out in
39..1 might even Mention that Dime Comics is
written on a higher .intellectual plabe."
Wo agree that Frothy didn't exactly have 'us
rolling in the aisles but it isn't the fairest thing in
the world to go comparing Froth with the New
Yorker or even with Dime Comie
Now if Mr. Sample had said "For 25 centi . it
would be possible' to buy an issue of The NeW "•
Portfolio and. the Penn State ' , Engineer and get'
more laugh s in one page than Froth put out in
39," we might agree. Portfb:io, The Engineer and
Froth are on comparable .lev.4.Ks. Frothy and the
New Yorker are not, hoivever. Any such .compari
son would be as.unfair asi saying that The Penn
State . Players shouldn't be supported merely be-
cause one can ocessionally•go•to the local:cinema
and for hhe same price see something like the Sev-
earth Veil or the Road to Utopia
If one is to. compare Frothy to-the New Yorker.
then it would be:just as fair to compare the Col
legian with the New York Times. So far there
has been little indication that Collegian is driving
the Times off the newspaper stands.
Dingy does have the . CoLegian attitude perhaps,
from hanging around street corners and listening
to student comment, but there are a few. thitigt
that might 'be passed on to the Froth staff. You
can go on charging . 2'sc'ents a-copy but you'ie.go,
Ingo to have to be mighty funny if you think-the.
student's will stand tiir it And that's no jOlie,.On.
First the Cart•
widersliand . that the t'osiwar Planning .cOm-:
.
Mittee has been eight : semesters on
that very fine . relibri of their's: We :do - not .meali
to •beTittle. the actual. findings Of bile cornriaiti6e
but dhesn't" it aPpe'ar to be a matter of putting tiie
very . beatitiful tart before the .non-eistarrt
h0t:962,
'Tis true, that discussing money matters in the
aesthetic atmcsphere of an ivy-covered College
borders on the vulgar,.bUt just where haVe proVlS
ions been made in the plan for putting salaries of
Penn State profs-on a higher scale? Just having a
very tiri Lower Division set-up will not attract
yourg insr,lctcr. - n to Penn State When' they - can't
fMci rr..aErnable livir;g quarters (sdmething that is
not a temporary postwar condition, by the way.)
After those that do come to join the faculty have
become established what do they do but :eave for
better paying jobs.
Salaries at Penn State aren't the lowest but a
few .more :bucks in the monthly check would make
a lot or protesscrs happier, their wives wouldn't,
r.ag them so mudh for being loaterS.becanse they'
don't go cut and get better jobs, and all in all this
would be a step towards a better Penn State.
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946